..arguably this starry sky edit could have been achieved with a lot
less steps (notwithstanding that this is a great shot and the final
version looks very good!).

j.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Romano Giannetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to add a data point for the worth of a "save as a grayscale" for masks:
> look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_0mkkSIKo
> and see how many times (5? More?) he needed to re-define the mask for the
> foreground trees.
>
> Romano
>
> On 12/05/16 17:45, Romano Giannetti wrote:
>>
>> I do not think that this would solve anything --- applied to different
>> points in the pipeline, that values are defining a different mask.
>> What would be very useful is the ability to export a mask (any mask) as a
>> PNG bitmap (alpha-depth, for example, or better as a grayscale) and import
>> it again whenever a mask is needed.
>>
>> This would be great also in darktable - Gimp mixed workflows, where you
>> could load the grayscale image as a layer mask, and having exactly the same.
>> Or having an external mask (a distance map for example!) generated by
>> another program and use it in DT.
>>
>> Romano
>>
>>
>>
>
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